Saint Giles, also known as Saint Giles the Hermit, lived in the 7th century.
There are many legends about him but there are very few facts.
It is thought he was borne in Athens, Greece and was originally called Aegidus.
He sailed to France where he stayed in the Provence and Septimania.
The Legenda Aurea links him with Arles where he withdrew into a forest, near Nimes, where he spent many years in solitude as a hermit. He befriended a deer which was being chased by the kings hunters. The hunters shot their arrows at the deer and one of the arrows injured Saint Giles. Many of the paintings of Saint Giles shows him holding a deer with an arrow in his and.
Saint Giles as a result became the patron saint of the physically disabled, lepers, cripples and beggars.
The king, according to legend, was Wamba. He built a monastery for Saint Giles who placed it under Benedictine rule. Saint Giles became the abbot and lived there for nearly 50 years. The town of St Gilles grew up round the monastery.
Information about the town of St. Gilles and the St. Giles fair in Oxford.
Sources
wikipedia
The Church’s Year Charles Alexander
Encyclopedia of saints by Howard Loxton
St. Gilles in the Languedoc
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